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Monday, February 25, 2013

Carpe Diem #131, Caterpillar

Dear Haijin, visitors and travelers,

Another day will soon be coming, as I prepare this episode I am in the Nightshift and I have found a little bit of time to work at my weblog. I have read wonderful haiku last days on 'full snow moon', 'castle', 'forsythia' and a lot more. I have tried to visit you all, but I haven't commented every where, not because I don't want to, but by lack of time.

Today we share haiku on 'Caterpillar', a lovely and mysterious creature. And in a lot of shapes and colors. Look for example to this 'Wattle Cup Caterpillar':

Isn't it a wonderful Caterpillar? Looks like a Chinese Dragon and that inspired me to write the next haiku:

dancing dragonin a tiny insects world Wattle Cup

Hm ... nice ...

Of course I can't go pass the metamorphosis of the Caterpillar, through cocoon to butterfly. It's such a magical and mysterious manner of Mother Nature ... I am always in awe as I see how a caterpillar becomes a butterfly ... really it's a wonder.

To write a haiku on Metamorphosis that's a real challenge to me ... so here I go ... a first try:

beneath a green leafher cocoon is cracking opena young butterfly

Another one ... on metamorphosis:

Pygmalion's lessonevery man and woman has to belike a caterpillarlike a caterpillargrowing to the next level become a butterfly

Well ... I hope you enjoyed the read and I hope that this read will inspire you to create your own haiku on 'Caterpillar' and maybe on metamorphosis. Share your haiku with our community here on Carpe Diem.

This prompt will stay on 'till February 27th 11.59 AM (CET) and I will post our new episode, 'Strangers' (provided by Patricia of High Five and Raspberries), later on today around 10.00 PM (CET).

This is a lovely topic. I looked and looked for the photos of the caterpillars on my Egyptian onions last summer, but finally gave up the ghost and used a Google image. This month is the 21st anniversary of my father's death, and he sent the original starter onions way before that, so the plant has fascinated me for many years.... and the caterpillars wandering on them.

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Carpe Diem is the place to be if you like to write and share haiku (or another Japanese poetry form like e.g. tanka). It's a family of haiku loving poets.Japanese poetry is known as the impression of a short moment, say a heartbeat or an eye-blink, in which nature plays an important role.It's free to participate in Carpe Diem. By participating in Carpe Diem, you agree with the use of your work in the exclusive e-book series of Carpe Diem.Of course your work will be credited as Carpe Diem always does. However all the texts and works at Carpe Diem are copyrighted and the rights belong to the authors.

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